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- Birth nameRalph Waldo Emerson Barton
- Ralph Barton was born on August 14, 1891 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was a director, known for The Conquering Power (1921). He was married to Germaine Tailleferre, Carlotta Monterey, Marie Jennings and Anne Minnerly. He died on May 19, 1931 in New York City, New York, USA.
- SpousesGermaine Tailleferre(1925 - April 1931) (divorced)Carlotta Monterey(1923 - 1926) (divorced)Marie Jennings(? - 1917) (divorced, 1 child)Anne Minnerly(? - 1922) (divorced, 1 child)
- His suicide note said he had irrevocably "lost the only woman I ever loved" (the actress Carlotta Monterey had divorced Barton in 1926 and married Eugene O'Neill in 1929), and that he feared his worsening bipolar disorder was approaching insanity. He wrote: "I have had few difficulties, many friends, great successes; I have gone from wife to wife and house to house, visited great countries of the world-but I am fed up with inventing devices to fill up twenty-four hours of the day.".
- Barton was a popular American cartoonist and caricaturist of actors and other celebrities. His work was in heavy demand through the 1920s and has been considered to epitomize the era.
- On May 19, 1931, in his East Midtown Manhattan penthouse apartment, Barton shot himself through the right temple.
- Much of Barton's work from the mid-1920s onward was for The New Yorker magazine, which he joined as an advisory editor from its very beginning in 1924.
- Barton was nearly forgotten soon after his death, shortly before his fortieth birthday.
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